Calcano-Martinez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:

The consolidated cases before the Court require us to interpret the effect of the permanent rules of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”), Pub.L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009-546 (1996), on the jurisdiction of federal courts to hear challenges raised by criminal aliens with respect to removal proceedings commenced by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”). In three opinions handed down in the last three years, we considered the effect of various provisions of the Antiter-rorism and Effective Death Penalty Act…